The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-19
Farm and Stock Notes.

Young and tender heritage is greedily
eaten by all classes of stock. Weeds when
just shooting out of the ground are relished
also, Some weeds that are poisonous when
matured are harmless when young and ten
der.
Fifty years ago our wild strawberry was
almost unknown in the garden, vet, by
careful selection and cultivation, we have
now many valuable varieties, each pos
seSsing different characteristics from the
others.
The theory that Lima beans will gerni-
nate if placed in the ground edgewise is re
futed by Prof. Halsted. who has conducted
a series of experiments in order to deter
mine the claim. He is of the opinion that
the seeds should be laid fiat on their sides.
1t is said that many wheat farms in the
Northwest are gradually being converted
into dairy farms. Butter and cheese are
more remunerative than wheat at present
prices. Again, dairying means better
system of farming than wheat culture
alone.
In hot weather cream should be stirred a
little every day to prevent the putrifactive
mold which soon sets in if kept quiet 1t is
for this reason much more difficult TO make
good butter with one cow than with two or
three with which churning has TO be done
often. The cream kept long loses some of
its butter, as it is eaten out by acid.
The fence corners are the pest-holes of the
farm. From them spring nearly all the
weed seeds and undesirable grasses which
are scattered over the fields. Rail fences
are expensive on account of the ground they
occupy and the weeds they protect. If ne
cessary, the hoe should be brought into re-
QUESTION to clean out the spaces along the
fence.
Flies do not bite so viciously in the dark,
and the eagerness with which q COW will
rush in the shade of a tree ON hot day
shows how she appreciates this fact. During
the very hottest weather, keeping the COW
in a darkened stable is not only humane,
but good policy as we'll It is altogether
the cheapest and easiest mode of increasing
the milk supply.
Ii is useless to save seed from large, first
class melons if more varieties than one are
growing on the same location, as no relia-
bity can be placed on such seed next sea-
SON. Not only will varieties of watermelons
mix, but it is unsafe to grow them in the
neighborhood of pumpkins Corn of differ
ent varieties will also mix, even when sepa-
rated at great distances.
Daniel Lee says, in the Southern Guilt
rdtor. that breeding mules and horses for
cotton planters has been the best business
he could do in Tennessee during % years,
and he believes that any other farmer, by
keeping five or six brood mares and work
ing them enough to pay for their keep,
might have an income of $500 or 5000 a
year, and save the wages and provisions of
two laborers.
Wire grass is a pest that proves very
troublesome as every joint produces a new
plant. If it overrunsa field the surest mode
of killing it is to keep the ground well
shaded with some thickly growing crop,
such as millet buckwheat or peas. Wire
grass delights in plenty of sunlight If it
become thicky rooted the ground should be
plowed and narrowed and q shading crop
put Oh as soon after as possible.
The following is said 30 be good recipe
for curing fowls from egg-eating: "Boil an
egg and remove as small piece of the shell
as may be necessary to extract the inside,
then fill the space either with mustard or
cayenne pepper, and neatly paste piece of
white paper over the opening. Remove all
the eggs from the nest and leave this pre-
pared egg for 'biddy' TO eat; one dose will
be enough generally to cure her Of the de-
sire"
The last year of the war cotton sold at
75c q pound, but soon after rapidly de-
clined. It's price of late years has averaged
lower than during slavery times and plant
ers say it is grown as cheaplY now as before
JIlt wal. lJufnlS tiit uIEn piiCt0, Wulit JfiS
Southern supply was cut off, England did
all she could to enc euiage cotton growing
in India and in Egypt. But the product
was so inferior that the supremacy of Anne
rIcan cotton is again assured. Wecan grow
good cotton more cheapiy than any other
country.
1t is important TO distinguish in plants the
difference between what may be termed the
vegetative and reproductive stages in plants
says Mr. Thomas Meehan. If branch on
an unfruitful tree be ''ringed," or in some
other way injured, that branch is at once
brought to the fruit-bearing or reproductive
condition. So far there is an antagonsm
between the vegetative and reproductive
stages. When the reproductive stage is
reached there is another subdivision. The
part TO which nutrition most freely flows
produces chiefly female flowers, while the
part to which nutrition flows less freely
yields chiefly male flowers, Any one can
see this who examines a larch, spruce or a